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Russia fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine early Wednesday in a massive barrage that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said marked a record number of aerial targets in a single day during the war.

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Russia fired hundreds of drones at Ukraine early Wednesday in a massive barrage that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said marked a record number of aerial targets in a single day during the war.

The attack involved 728 drones and 13 missiles, Zelensky said in a post on X, and mainly targeted Lutsk—a city in northwestern Ukraine, near the Polish border, that is home to military airfields. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the assault focused on Ukrainian air bases and hit “all the designated targets.” Ukrainian officials said that at least one person was killed in the attack..

“This is a telling attack—and it comes precisely at a time when so many efforts have been made to achieve peace, to establish a ceasefire, and yet only Russia continues to rebuff them all,” Zelensky wrote on X. Beyond Lutsk, damage was also reported in 10 Ukrainian regions, he said.

The Kremlin’s latest assault comes at a tenuous point in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine—which has now stretched past its third year—particularly as U.S. support for Kyiv has wavered under U.S.........

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